Safety-catch for jewelry.



NO- 897,470. PATENTED SEPT. .1, 1908. E. LIEBBET. SAFETY CATCH FOR JEWELRY.

APPLIGATION FILED JUNE 20, 1907,

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JUST liinilUi At/TURING JEWELRY COMPANY, A (It)RiURATlOf'I O'e CALIFORNIA.

SAFETY-CATCH FOB 3E WELR'EZ'.

Ho. QZ WO. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 1, 1908. Application filed June 20, 18 07. Serial No. 379,991. (ModeL) To (ZZZ waom it may concern: between the sides when so bent to inclose the it known that I, EMILE Linn'na'r, acitipoint of the pin. This is shown by Figs. 8 zen of the United States of America, residing and 9. The hood 71 is notched at )1. The. at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles back of the hood is closed by a strip of metal and State of California, have invented a new which extends slightly beyond the axis a and co and useful Improvement in Safety-( atches ends in a skirt or lip which is preferably for Jewelry, of which the following is a specigrooved so as to guide and retain the pin iication. while the hereinafter described rotation of This invention has reference to animprovethe housing-clasp oecu 1e merit in a safety-catch adapted to lock the The bonnet 1s so pivoted that it is a little (:5

free end of a pin used to fasten all kinds of heavier at the rear than at the front so that brooches, breastlates and other jewelry when the securing pin is unfastened it will which are fastens to garments by means of assume the position shown in Fig. 1 with the a sin, and. the object thereof is to provide a top of the bonnet beyond the reach of the end safety-catch for jewelry which will autoniah of the securing pin as it is pressed down into 70 ically lock the free end of the securing pin, contact with the skirt of the bonnet which at and at the same time will protect the point of this time lies in the path of movement of the the pin, and which can be easily and readily end of the securing pin. The securing pin is unis-stoned whenever it is required to be run passed through the cloth to which the brooch 2O fastened. I accomplish this object by the or other device is to be attached and the mechanism described herein and illustrated body of the brooch. is rotated so that the in the accompanying drawings in which skirt of the bonnet engages the end of the sc- Tiigure 3 is a side elevation of a brooch procuring pin. Further pressure causes the vided with satetycatch, showing the catch bonnet to turn on its axis until the front of in an open position. Fig. 2 is aside cleva the top engages the securing pin on the side 80 tion showing the catch in a locked position. opposite the skirt when the pressure is re Fig. is an under elevation showing the moved. The resiliency of the securing pin catch in locked position. Fig. 4 is a rear exerted through shoulder It causes the free elevation. Fig. 5 is a front elevation showend thereof to pass up into the top of the honing the catch in a locked position. Fig. 6 is not where it is securely locked. A pressure 85 a cross section on the line A B. Fig. 7 is a on top of the bonnet at the back thereof will section on the line C-D. Fig. 8 is a rear elerotate it on its axis and thereby release the vation of the housing-clasp. Fig. 9 is a side free end of the securing pin from the bonnet elevation of the housing-clasp. when the pin can be withi'lrawn from the G is the bod y which may be the front plate. cloth. 90 oi any sort of a brcas --plate, brooch, breast- It will be observed that the free end of the pin or similar piece of jewelry, which it is dcsecuring pin, when the pin is locked, extends sired to attach to a garment by means of a beyond the pin which secures the bonnet in pivoted )ill. Pivotally secured to the under its bearings, and that the sidesoi' the bonnet 40 side of the body at is the securing pin P. are long enough to allow the point of the se- 90 This in is made of s ring material and is curing pin to clear the front of the top of the provi ed with a shou der or rojection k, bonnet as it is turned by the engagement of which when the pin is clasped in the lock the securing pin with the skirt of the bonnet. keeps it under tension so that there is an n By making the bonnet to rotate longitudiward pressure exerted. at the free end of t io nally the body of the brooch and having the 00 pin. At the other end of the body is 801- top extend on both sides of its aXis when it dered or otherwise secured a bifurcated bean is brought up over the end of the securing ing Y. I The housing-clasp, or bonnet h is pin it locks the free end thereof against inovepivoted in the bearing by a wire or pin a, so inent away from the body an d by closing the that it rocks longitudinally the body through rear end. of the bonnet the sharp point of the 105 ninety degrees about its axis a. securing pin is protected and thaoperator is The housing-clasp or bonnet consists of a secured against pricking her fingers thereon. piece of metal inthe shape of a non-symmet- A notch n is provided on the top, of the bonrical ellipse bent in the shape of the lettcrU net at the back thereof to facilitate uniastenso as to form the hood h with suiiicient space ing. The skirt ol lthetLbonnetfprojecting in 119 front of and above the axis of the bonnet re11- ders the fastening of the bonnet over the end of ,the securing pin automatic. The sides of the bearing in which the bonnet is mounted preferably extend to the height of the bonnet when locking the securing pin and the front parts of the bearing preferably extend in front of the axis of the bonnet to act as a guide to the end of the securing pin when about to be locked in the bonnet.

Having described my invention what I claim is:

1. A brooch comprising a body; a securing in secured to, at or near one end of said body; a bifurcated bearing secured near the other end .of said body, the furcations extending transversely the body; a bonnet pivotally mounted in said bcarin s to swing longitudinally the body; and a shirt secured to the lower part of said bonnet, said skirt projecting toward the junction of the seeurmg pin and body.

2. In a brooch or likedevice a safety catch comprising a bonnet pivotal ly secured in bear ings secured to the body, said catch being mounted to swing longitudinally the securing pin and having a skirt projecting in front of the part which secures the bonnet in its bearings, said skirt being above the body.

3. in a brooch or like device, a safety catch comprising a bonnet ivotally secured in bearings secured to the ody, said catch being mounted to swing longitudinally the body, and having a skirt proyscting in front of the pivot which secures the bonnet to its bearings, said bearings extending upwardly to the height of the bonnet, and a portion extending in front of the-pivot securing the honnet, said bonnet having the rear portion closed and slightly heavier than the front portion.

In witness whereof i have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' EMILE LIEBERT.

Witnesses:

BERT CAMPBELL, OLIN WELLBORN, Jr. 

